Title: Entrepreneurship vs. mentorship: an analysis of leadership modes on sustainable development with moderation of innovation management

Authors: Liping Wang

Addresses: School of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Zhengzhou University of Economics and Business, Zhengzhou, Henan, 451191, China

Abstract: This study explores the connection between mentorship and sustainable development (SD) within three major perspectives of sustainable development, such as social, environmental, and economic perspectives from China. Second, the study revealed the relationship between entrepreneurship and SD. Third, a moderation influence of innovation management (IM) was observed among the proposed nexuses of mentorship, entrepreneurship, and SD. To this end, a total of 535 questionnaires were eventually utilised with the support of SmartPLS and the structure equation modelling (SEM) approach. A positive connection was confirmed between mentorship and SD. The outcome uncovered a positive correlation between entrepreneurship and SD. In addition, a moderation of IM was found between mentorship, entrepreneurship, and SD. The study enlists several interesting lines about mentorship, entrepreneurship, and IM that might help to improve SD in terms of social, environmental, and economic perspectives. Besides, the study provides various implications for management and states the weaknesses along with the future directions for worldly researchers.

Keywords: mentorship; entrepreneurship; sustainable development; innovation management; structure equation modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2024.142160

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management, 2024 Vol.14 No.3, pp.233 - 249

Received: 24 Sep 2023
Accepted: 29 Jun 2024
Published online: 10 Oct 2024 *

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